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[โ€“] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That list is almost exclusively old fashioned names, which, combined with the website name makes me wonder if theyโ€™re scraping obituaries for the names. Iโ€™ve lived here for most of a decade and Iโ€™ve never met a Wolfgang or Ursula under 60 (actually of the top ten, I only know young people named Michael, Peter, Thomas, and Maria). I do know several older Wolfgangs and Helgas, so they certainly were common names at one point-the data might just be 80 years delayed. Actually going through it, all of my husbandโ€™s older family membersโ€™ names are in the top thirty. (Edit: also no idea how accurate this list is, but the most popular names from the 50s are all the same as on the other list, so I suspect it is just gathering data upon death)

I know at least five Daniels in their 20s and 30s though. Iโ€™m a) an immigrant, and b) just going off of my own experience, so take that with a grain of salt.

Quick aside about Maria as a manโ€™s name: itโ€™s traditionally Austrian, afaik, and itโ€™s more commonly a second name (like Rainer Maria Rilke), but thereโ€™s no chance that 0% of the Marias in Germany are men.